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A huge fireball crashed into the Atlantic earlier this month – and went almost unseen. The event took place on February 6 at 14:00 UTC when a meteor exploded in the air 620 miles (1,000km) off the coast of Brazil. PHOTO: google.com/search




• NASA reports huge explosion fireball since Chelyabinsk over Atlantic
• Event took place February 6 at 14:00 UTC, 620 miles off Brazil’s coast
A huge fireball crashed into the Atlantic earlier this month – and went almost unseen.The event took place on February 6 at 14:00 UTC when a meteor exploded in the air 620 miles (1,000km) off the coast of Brazil.
It released energy equivalent to 13,000 tons of TNT, which is the same as the energy used in the first atomic weapon that leveled Hiroshima in 1945.
This was the largest event of its type since the February 2013 fireball that exploded over Chelyabinsk, Russia, leaving more than 1,600 people injured.
That fireball measured 18 meters across and screamed into Earth’s atmosphere at 41,600 mph. Much of the debris landed in a local lake called Chebarkul.
The Chelyabinsk fireball had 500,000 tons of TNT energy – 40 times more than the latest impact, according to Phil Plait.
“As impacts go, this was pretty small,” Plait writes in an in-depth report in his Slait blog. ‘After all, you didn’t even hear about until weeks after it occurred.
“Had it happened over a populated area it, would’ve rattled some windows and probably terrified a lot of people, but I don’t think it would’ve done any real damage.”
Ron Baalke, who works for Nasa, first tweeted the event after it appeared on the space agency’s Near-Earth Object Fireball page.
Plait estimates that, given the explosive energy of the most recent fireball, it was likely to be around five to seven meters wide.
It is unlikely that anyone saw it, but it was probably picked up by the military, who record atmospheric explosions.“Impacts like this happen several times per year on average, with most going unseen,” Plait said. It is the much larger impacts that we should be worried about.
The United States National Aeronautic Space Agency (NASA) tracks around 12,992 near-Earth objects, which have been discovered orbiting within our solar system close to our own orbit.
It estimates around 1,607 are classified as Potentially Hazardous Asteroids. In September, Paul Chodas, manager of NASA’s Near-Earth Object office at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, said: “There is no existing evidence that an asteroid or any other celestial object is on a trajectory that will impact Earth.
“In fact, not a single one of the known objects has any credible chance of hitting our planet over the next century.
“One such asteroid is 2013 TX68, which poses no threat to Earth, but could get very close to the surface, according to the space agency – although it adds there is a very slim chance of this happening.”
While the March 5th asteroid poses no threat, scientists have long said that these space rocks could threaten life on Earth.Last year, Brian Cox said we are at risk of being wiped out by asteroids – and we’re not taking the threat seriously.
“There is an asteroid with our name on it and it will hit us,” Cox told DailyMail.com. In fact, the Earth had a ‘near-miss’ only a few months ago.
“We didn’t see it,’ says the 46-year-old. ‘We saw it on the way out, but if it had just been a bit further over it would have probably wiped us out. These things happen.”
*Adapted from DailyMailUK.com
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It didn't create much buzz because it fell into the ocean

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